IT SOLUTION ARCHITECT

What you’ll do   To support  key strategic growth areas, the VBIT Architecture Team require a highly capable and experienced ‘IT Solution Architect’ who will be responsible for the solutions architecture and design of integrated IT solutions that meet current and future needs of the four vertical business units in Vodafone Business and the Enterprise Business Units in Local Markets.
The role will deliver a trusted IT Architecture & Solutions Design service to stakeholders throughout Vodafone to quality, level of detail, time and cost acceptance criteria, such that we can demonstrably meet our Business colleagues’ needs and provide our colleagues in IT Domain Delivery high quality deliverables that facilitate the development, test and deployment activities whilst moving Vodafone towards its stated strategic goals.
This also includes the provision of comprehensive guidance on the development of, and modifications to, solution components to ensure that they take into account relevant architectures, strategies, policies, standards and practices; and that existing and planned solution components remain compatible.
Who you are   Demonstrable and recent track record of delivering an architecture and design service on projects that span multi-disciplinary areas across OSS, BSS and Enterprise domains in a large telecommunications IT environments Sound overall knowledge of application capabilities, integration, data design methodologies and industry best practices Ability to understand a wide range of disciplines in enough detail to communicate effectively with experts in those areas to enable delivery of E2E solutions designs, including, as examples, network designs, customer relationship management, order management / service provisioning, service assurance processes, billing and general enterprise management functions.
Management of complex and conflicting priorities with ease Ability to balance short term vs.
strategic solutions to cater to conflicting demands   Not a perfect fit?   Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background.
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What's in it for you ​​​​​​​ Discretionary yearly bonus.
10% Annual leave.
28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year Charity days.
5 days/year Maternity/adoption leave.
52 weeks out of which the first 13 weeks are fully paid followed by 26 weeks of half pay and 6 months - working 4 days, getting paid 5 Paternity leave.
16 weeks fully paid Private pension.
You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2.
matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
Access to.
private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme Additional discounts.
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